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10 Year Milestone for PREP Program at Tufts
By Pamela Katz Ressler, RN, BSN, HN-BC, MS-PREP student and PREP-AIRED blog moderator The Pain Research, Education and Policy Program at Tufts University has reached an important milestone by celebrating its first ten years of existence. In the Fall...
Pain Management as a Fundamental Human Right
by Daniel Carr, M.D, FABPM, Founding Director PREP program Tufts University School of Medicine and Pamela Katz Ressler, RN, BSN, HN-BC, MS-PREP student and PREP-AIRED blog moderator As the healthcare system has become more patient-centered, one sees increasing reference to...
FDA Advisory Committee Recommends Restrictions on Acetaminophen
by Pamela Katz Ressler, RN, BSN, HN-BC, MS-PREP Student, and PREP-AIRED blog moderator On June 30, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee voted to recommend restrictions on both over the counter and prescription acetaminophen and acetaminophen combination products....
Low Back Pain and Complementary & Alternative Medicine
by Pamela Katz Ressler, RN, BSN, HN-BC, MS-PREP student and PREP-AIRED blog moderator The current issue of the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine's (NCCAM) newsletter focuses on low-back pain: research and care. Since 4 out of 5...
Tracking Pain With Twitter
by Lisa Neal Gualtieri, Ph.D., Adjunct Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine I teach Online Consumer Health and Web Strategies for Health Communication in the Health Communication Program . While this doesn't have to do with pain per se,...
PREP-AIRED named Link of the Month
We are honored to be named "link of the month" by the Mayday Pain Project. The Mayday Pain Project was begun in 1994 with a grant from the Mayday Fund in New York as an international educational resource with a...
From Pain to Palliative Care
Thank you to MS-PREP/NESA student, Nancy MItchell for sending along the link to a thought provoking documentary series that recently aired on WBUR in Boston. The documentary entitled: Quality of Death: End of Life Care in America, raises many questions...
Tufts PREP Faculty Speak at Mass PI Symposium
Congratulations to the Massachusetts Pain Initiative for an excellent educational symposium on Friday, April 3. Familiar faces from the Tufts Pain Research, Education and Policy faculty served as expert speakers at the event: Dr. Dan Carr delivered the keynote,...
An International Perspective from the Philippines
by Marie Belle Francia, M.D., M.S. As an Internist and future Oncologist, pain assessment and management will play a vital role in my practice. That said, one issue I’ve come to realize based on personal experience and discussions with other...
Welcome to the Pain Research, Education & Policy Blog
by Richard Glickman-Simon, MD, Program Director, Pain Research, Education & Policy Programs, Tufts University School of Medicine Welcome to the Programs in Pain Research, Education and Policy at Tufts University School of Medicine! Our multidisciplinary masters program is the only...
What is PREP?
PREP stands for Pain Research, Education and Policy. We are a unique Master's degree program drawing students from diverse fields with a common interest in creating new models for addressing and treating pain in our society. Our curriculum is based...
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